Dylan C Penningroth: 1 book
The Claims of Kinfolk
African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among...
